Question

Development of all round personality can be achieved through integrated approach is the philosophy of schools that follow which of the following curriculum?
1. Subject based
2. child centered
3. Undifferentiated
4. Activity based

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Undifferentiated

In the practical paradigm, the curriculum is defined as continuous interaction among teacher, learner, subject matter, and environment. The definition of - the practical paradigm admits the entire culture of the classroom as the curriculum. This includes everything that happens there, both subject matter and environment. The curriculum is, thus, anything that influences or shapes the thought, feeling outlook, and behavior of learners.  

Undifferentiated or fused or Integrated curriculum:

• Curriculum which does not aim to get specialized in various subjects
• The specialization of the particular subject should come at higher secondary or college level
• This type of approach is adopted at primary and pre-primary stages.
• The concepts are studied by the students as per the levels and standards.
• Specialization can opt after a particular standard.
• Development of all-around personality can be achieved possible only through integrated experiences and through the integration of the unification of subjects.

• Subject-based curriculum: In the subject-centered curriculum, the subject's knowledge occupies the central position.
  • The purpose of the subject-centered curriculum is to transmit to the younger generation the knowledge which is most ‘important to all humankind. The advocates of subject-centered
  • curriculum believe that the needs of individual and society are best served if the curriculum is based on the knowledge that is generalizable to groups or classes of situations. The subject-centered curriculum, thus, consists of an array of knowledge structures from different disciplines such as science, arts, and mathematics.
  • These subjects are treated as distinct entities, each requiring almost equal time for classroom instruction. Knowledge is communicated to students mainly through classroom instruction.
• Child-centered: Child-centered curriculum considers children as individuals who learn differently from adults.
  • In such a curriculum the characteristics of the child dominate the curriculum. The child-centered curriculum perspective was accepted and propagated by John Dewey, Rousseau, and Parker, although they all have different perspectives of childhood. Under the Rousseaurian perspective of childhood, each child has innate goodness and education aims to develop the child’s innate goodness and to protect him/ her vices and errors of adults. During the early years, children should be allowed free play in natural settings.
  • Between the ages of five and twelve, sensory and concrete experiences should dominate their learning. Abstract subjects such as geography and history should be abolished from the primary stage curriculum. Only after the twelfth year children should be introduced to abstract learning.
• Activity-based:.
  • The activities included in the curriculum should meet the basic learning needs of children and should provide such essential tools of learning as knowledge, skills, value, and attitude which can make them self-reliant.
  • The curriculum should be defined in terms of the concrete everyday activities of pupils.

Hence, we can say that the development of an all-around personality can be achieved through an integrated approach belongs to an undifferentiated curriculum.